Practice and Procedure

NO CLE - Best Practices in Client Advocacy: From Beginning to Bitter End

Chapter 7 Breakout
Speakers:
Chapter 7 Trustee: Joseph A. Baldi, Moderator
Baldi Berg & Wallace, Ltd.; Chicago
U.S. Trustee’s Office: Jeffrey S. Snell
Office of the U.S. Trustee; Chicago
Client Advocate: Barbara L. Yong
Golan & Christie, LLP; Chicago

Chapter 13 Breakout
Speakers:
Client Advocate: Nathan E. Curtis, Moderator
Geraci Law L.L.C.; Chicago
U.S. Trustee’s Office: M. Gretchen Silver
Office of the U.S. Trustee; Chicago
Chapter 13 Trustee: Glenn B. Stearns
Chapter 13 Trustee; Lisle, Ill.

Creditor Breakout
Speakers:
Berton J. Maley, Moderator

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NO CLE - Pitfalls and Ethical Dilemmas of a Solo Practice or Small Firm

This panel is for participants who are either solo or small-firm practitioners and will include such topics as paperless offices, trust funds and accounting, managing workflow, and the implications on the office in the event of a natural disaster.

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NO CLE - Training the Senior Partner

A panel of younger lawyers and financial professionals will talk about the issues and challenges of working for senior lawyers and will suggest ways to improve the working relationships between senior and junior lawyers.

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NO CLE - Getting Bang for Your Buck When Engaging Financial Advisors and Expert Witnesses

This panel will provide helpful guidelines for creating clear client expectations, adequately defining work scope and managing fees when engaging FAs and expert witnesses. We have all had cases where clients were unhappy because work product didn’t meet expectations or fees were significantly higher than expected. This panel will help the practitioner learn how to use financial professionals more effectively to decrease the risk of having an unhappy client.

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NO CLE - Common Mistakes Made in Consumer Cases: A Judicial Perspective

This panel of Midwestern judges will discuss some of the common mistakes that they are seeing in consumer cases, and how those mistakes can be avoided.

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NO CLE - Current Business Developments and Trends in Insolvency Practice

This panel will present the current trends in the industry, where the work is and isn’t, and where it may be in the future.

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NO CLE - Developing a Successful Bankruptcy Practice

This panel will discuss what business development and office-management techniques have worked for them — with the understanding that everyone does things a little differently.

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NO CLE - This Isn’t Hide and Go Seek: Disclosure Issues in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases

What happens when there is a failure of disclosure in consumer cases? This panel will cover current disclosure requirements, client intake tips regarding disclosure, and the ramifications of failing to disclose (i.e., denial of discharge, bad-faith dismissal, judicial estoppel, criminal prosecution, etc.).

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NO CLE - Do Hashtags Generate Business? Using Social Media and the Internet to Grow Your Practice (and Maybe Even Go Viral)

On the Internet, no one knows you’re an attorney (unless you have a website, blog, LinkedIn profile, Twitter account and/or other social media outlet). This panel will discuss the use of the Internet and social media in your practice.

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NO CLE - Starting Off on the Right Foot

Proper representation requires that the lawyer consider from the onset of the relationship a variety of practical and ethical concerns. This panel discussion will focus on such issues as whether bankruptcy is the best alternative and which form of bankruptcy is the appropriate one, as well as certain pre-bankruptcy considerations and ensuring that the representation does not run awry of certain ethical considerations and canons.

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